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Creating a New Contract Object

New Business Objects can be created to suits a multitude of business purposes. This example shows you how to create a Contract business object.

To add new fields to Business Object, click on Administration, expand System Settings, and click on Business Foundation to access the Business Foundation Configuration page.

Click on Create New and on the dropdown click on New Business Object. The New Business Object form page appears. Enter all relevant information.

Base Info

System Name: name of the Business Object (once you input a name, the Friendly Name and Plural Name fields are autopopulated)
Friendly Name: alternative to the System Name
Plural Name: plural version of the system/friendly name (e.g. inventories)
Supports Extensions: this allows you to extend an existing meta class with extra properties. For example, you can have a download class and you can extend it with "imagedownload" which contains width and height as extra parameters.

Field Info

System Name: enter in a system name
Friendly Name: enter in a friendly, front-end name
Maximum Length: maximum number of characters allowed in this field

Click Save to save changes.

Add fields to the Contract business object as needed. Refer to Adding New Fields to Business Object section for instructions on how to add new fields to a business object.

Click Save to save changes.